“We killed the Patriot Act,” boasted Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, to cheers from a crowd at a political rally after the vote.

Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, invoked abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in defending his vote against the Patriot Act. “Earlier today, the Senate voted to stop a bill that would have allowed the abuses of American civil liberties to continue for another four years,” he said in a floor statement.

“When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow, we will be giving terrorists the opportunity to plot against our country undetected,” Reid said, referring to the law’s expiration this week.

It should be abundantly clear that the two parties work to enslave Americans by flipping positions based on which party is holding power.

When a bill proposing more enslavement makes its way through the halls of congress, the minority party will cry opposition while they secretly applaud the majority party’s efforts to ram the legislation through behind closed doors.

The criminal tyrants are laughing at you. They are mocking you. They sit behind closed doors scheming for ways to rob you of your liberty. If this nonsense isn’t evidence enough I don’t know what is.